2019 | NYC | Artist
2018, oil, plaster, lacker, acrylic on polystyrol, 200x200cm Pumpkin
Alex Nowak is an artist whose practice is informed by outsider art aesthetics, architectural models and contemporary painting. His works address a wide range of interests including psychedelics, ethnography, art history, didactics, and stage design. Nowak envisions his art as a combination of ethnoreligious and spiritual medicine.
Selected recent exhibitions include: 2019 Animal Dictionary, Parkhaus am Malkastenpark, Düsseldorf; 2019 The Naked Manager, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta; 2018 Hängung Total, sonneundsolche, Düsseldorf; 2018 Phase 3 - Raum für Kunst, Simultanhalle, MMOMA, Moskau; 2017 19 Positionen, Museum Folkwang, Essen; 2017 Hinterland, Schkeuditz, Leipzig 2017 Post-post, Halle 3, Düsseldorf; 2016 All/In V, Galerie Ampersand, Köln; 2016 Ancient, HfBk Galerie, Hamburg.
In 2017, Nowak was awarded the Georg-Meistermann-Stipendium, Essen, and nominated in 2016 for the Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst der Landeshauptstadt, Düsseldorf.
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Support: Alex Nowak's residency is made possible with support from the Georg-Meistermann-Scholarship.